Not Always What You Want

By Emily Carol

Ch. 3

Author Day

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Disclaimer- Wish I owned Gilmore Girls, but I don't. I'm also only 13 so if you sue me I don't have that much money in the first place. I DO own Emma and Emily and some other characters. I also don't own really much else mentioned in here, such as Judy Blume.

Summary- Future Fic - Rory's life isn't always what she wanted. Jess's life isn't always what he wanted. In fact, not that many people's life is what they wanted. But Jess goes out in search of something he always wanted. To find he may never get it.

Rating- PG right now

Spoilers- Just that both Jess and Dean left Stars Hollow before Rory went to Yale and that Dean married Lindsay.

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Angeleyes' Place was packed with people, all here to see Cate Satrogini. Rory stood behind the counter with Emma and Emily (who came for mortal support, knowing that both Rory and Emma hated Cate's books, although she agreed completely with them). "I can't believe this many people would show up for such a bad author," Rory said.

"Okay, we're going to get you coffee now before you start to tell that to her face," Emma said dragging Emily off with her.

Rory sighed and leaned against the counter. A man came up and started talking to her.

"Hi," he said. "You're Rory right? The owner?"

"Um, yeah," Rory said. She didn't know nor recognize this man, yet he knew her name.

"I'm Eric Jones," He said. "You probably don't know me but my daughter Rebecca is in here all the time."

"Oh yes, Rebecca," Rory said. "The eight year old?"

"Right," Eric said.

"Yeah, I know her really well," Rory said. "Why's she here anyway? She tried one of those books once and hated it."

"Yeah, well apparently she wanted to tell that to the author's face," Eric said. "And she has her own mind so I can't really object."

Rory laughed. "Yeah, that's just like Rebecca," Rory said.

"Yeah, well my wife only had her when she was nineteen so Rebecca grew up pretty fast and learned to take care of us," Eric said.

"Oh, you're married?" Rory asked.

"My wife died when Rebecca was only a year old, car accident," Eric said.

"Oh, I'm so sorry," Rory said.

"Well I only really married her because of Rebecca," Eric said. "We would have eventually divorced if she hadn't died."

"Oh," Rory said, not knowing what to say now.

Rory heard a voice she recognized and looked to see who it was, and of course it was Rebecca. "I don't know why you bother writing books at all." Rebecca said to Cate. "All you're books have the same plot with different characters and slightly different events."

"Well maybe you just don't understand my books, they're written for teenage girls, not five-year-olds," Cate said sweetly.

That really got to Rebecca, anyone called her even a year younger than she really was and she got extremely mad. "I'm eight!" She said standing up to look Cate right in the eyes.

"Oh boy," Eric said.

"Don't worry about it," Rory said. She laughed to herself; Rebecca had been like this as long as Rory had known her.

"So," Eric said. "I was wondering, would you like to go out sometime?"

Rory stammered, "Sh-sure."

"I was thinking maybe we could drive to Naperville and go to this restaurant near the Riverwalk," Eric said. "It's called Bd's Mongolian Barbeque, all you can eat."

"Ooo," Rory said. "All you can eat?"

Eric laughed a little. "Rebecca told me you liked to eat."

Rory laughed too but wondering how much Rebecca had told her dad about her. Just then Rebecca walked over. "Come on Daddy," she said. "Let's go, Miss I'm-The-Best-Author Satrogini won't pick me anymore because I'm starting to make people agree with me." She said this all so sweetly that you'd think that she'd said good stuff about Cate's books, not completely bashed them.

"Okay honey," Eric said to his daughter. Rory reached for a pen and piece of paper. She wrote on it; 555-4157 and handed it to him.

"Here's my number," Rory said. "Call me and we can figure out a date."

Eric smiled. "Okay, thanks." He got Rebecca up on his back for a piggyback, waved at Rory and walked out the door, careful not to hit Rebecca's head on the doorframe.

Rory was smiling when Emma and Emily came back. "I'm starting to feel sick with how many people showed up tonight," Emma said.

Emily nodded in agreement. "All her books are like Judy Blume's Forever all over again. I read that once in my life and it was a bad mistake. She actually described IT." Emily made a funny face and stuck her tongue out like she was sick.

"What are you smiling about?" Emma asked Rory.

"I got a date," Rory said.

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A/N- I hope you all enjoyed! R&R